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posted by martyb on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the Will-Publish-for-Food dept.

PubMed — a powerful taxpayer-funded search engine for medical study abstracts that doctors, patients, and the media rely on — just started displaying conflict of interest data up front. New information about funding sources and potential conflicts will now appear right below study abstracts, which means readers don't have even to open a journal article to be made aware of any possible industry influence over studies.

[...] The change comes a year after 62 scientists and physicians from around the world (including the head of the Center for Science in the Public Interest) lobbied for the update, part of a broader transparency movement in science.

http://www.vox.com/2017/4/19/15350048/pubmed-publishing-conflicts-of-interest-funding-information


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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday April 24 2017, @09:39AM (3 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday April 24 2017, @09:39AM (#498737) Journal

    Few people will risk their major income or social standing. It's unconscious game theory and human nature in one.

    To get past this there has to be a way to do business without these entanglements interfering. And thus we have professor emeritus and anonymity. I'll guess that's part of the attraction of big cities. People won't do personal judgement on stuff that doesn't matter or else they would not be doing anything else.

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  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday April 24 2017, @09:42AM (2 children)

    by Wootery (2341) on Monday April 24 2017, @09:42AM (#498740)

    It's unconscious game theory and human nature in one.

    Not really, it's a damaging cultural taboo on getting it wrong. Science doesn't profit by scientists being scared to make a guess that turns out to be wrong.

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday April 24 2017, @09:50AM (1 child)

      by kaszz (4211) on Monday April 24 2017, @09:50AM (#498746) Journal

      The taboo has a good game theory backing even if no one intended it. But if no one knows who got it wrong. Well then the opinion of people matters less and actual facts matters more. Ad hominem got undermined.

      • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday April 24 2017, @04:43PM

        by Wootery (2341) on Monday April 24 2017, @04:43PM (#498937)

        The taboo has a good game theory backing even if no one intended it

        Not really. It's not set in stone that academia must always be punitive toward serious conjectures which turn out to be incorrect. Like I said, science suffers from this, and no-one benefits.